 | Otto Augustus Wall - 1922 - 632 pàgines
...Charity deserve the adoration of every true man! Scott expressed the same idea in one of his poems : "O, woman! In our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; AVhen pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!" During the French Revolution, toward... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 896 pàgines
...her from the sight away, Till pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured, ' Is there none Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom,...water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst!' XXX O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By... | |
 | Elisabeth Williams Anthony Dexter, Elisabeth Anthony Dexter - 1924 - 286 pàgines
...have become proverbial are inherited partly from the distaff side ? CHAPTER IV THE MINISTERING ANGEL "O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" THIS qualified compliment has been paid to woman in all ages, and until recently it has been supposed... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 966 pàgines
...her from the sight away. Till pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured, " Is there none Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom,...blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst 1 " O Woman I in our hours of ease Uncertain; coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 494 pàgines
...of heaven, — Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love. — OTWAY. O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! — SIR WALTEH SCOTT. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And... | |
 | 1916 - 892 pàgines
...eludes him. There is hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. It is not woman's fault. The poetry of the world is filled with the words ' to win' and 'to woo'; one... | |
 | 1916 - 928 pàgines
...him. There is hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman 1 in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. It is not woman's fault. The poetry of the world is filled with the words ' to win' and 'to woo'; one... | |
 | 1833 - 212 pàgines
...savage mood, Endure and sbrink not, we of nobler clay May temper it to bear,— it is but for a day. O, woman! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou! SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental day, Free, gen'rous, and refin'd, Descend... | |
 | 1891 - 760 pàgines
...from our first great poet, Shakespeare's — "Frailty, thy name is woman ! " Or with Scott's — О woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. (Afaruiion, c. vi., s. 30. MAC THE LAMP ACRE.1 ["BITS ABOUT EDINBURGH"— No. 3.] THE ancient collegiate... | |
 | 1867 - 420 pàgines
...of "Female Suffrage" cut short with an "&c.," when ho had taken what Beemed to answer his purpose : "O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow A ministering Angel thou .'" "The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! The Man, the Hermit, sigh'd — till Woman smiled."... | |
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O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou... 
